The United States Attorney's Office in Minnesota has announced a former corrections officer has been sentenced to 14 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to engaging in a sexual relationship with a female inmate.

A release said Mark McShane, 37 of Owatonna, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual abuse of a ward in federal court in June. He was sentenced Thursday in St. Paul.

According to the release, McShane was employed as a correctional officer at the Federal Correctional Institution in Waseca, where from November 2016 to January 2017, he allegedly engaged in a sexually inappropriate relationship with an inmate. The release goes on allege he became intoxicated during a social outing the following month and admitted the relationship to co-workers.